Marc Lamont Hill, a CNN commentator and professor at Temple University, responded to the tweet with three crying laughing emojis.

Marc Lamont Hill Condones Assault (Twitter screenshot: July 5, 2018)

Lamont Hill claimed in a follow-up tweet on his own page that he doesn’t “advocate throwing drinks on people,” but still suggested that wearing a MAGA hat invites assault and that it’s hard to “feel sympathy” for the teen.